Open Access Week: 22 - 28 October




Open Access Week 2018 will be held from 22-28 October. This year’s theme is Designing equitable foundations for open knowledge, highlighting the importance of equity and inclusivity in open systems.

Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole (Shockey, 2018).

Open Access communication of research outputs maximizes the distribution, potential usage and outcomes of research findings. Open Access can make the difference between being cited and not cited. The easier it is to access a work, the more likely it is to be downloaded, read and cited.

Now in its 10th year, Open Access Week will be celebrated around the globe. The JCU Library will be screening the film, Paywall: The Business of Scholarship which argues that major for-profit academic publishers are contributing to inequity by making access to research results unaffordable.

Screening times

Cairns
When: Monday 22 October, 3pm-5pm
Where: Room B1.107, Building B1 - Library

Townsville
When: Thursday 25 October 18, 1pm-3pm
Where: Room 18.002A, Building 18 - Eddie Koiki Mabo Library

You can learn more about open access publishing, how you can have research published in open access journals and repositories, and find links to open access resources in the Open Access Publishing Libguide.

While you're in the library, check out our displays or talk to your liaison librarian about how Open Access can work for you.

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